Tim Noble and Sue Webster are collaborating artists, they are most well known for there work with shadows. They use waste material to create abstract 3 dimensional forms, that will cast a silhouette of an identifiable image when light is projected onto the form from the correct angle.
It is fairly typical for Noble and Webster to create self portraits with there shadow imagery.
This city scape is my favourite piece. Although the other pieces display more technical ability the simplicity of this one makes the association between the objects and shadow more cohesive. In a sense it makes it less intriguing from an aesthetic, technical point of view, but i think it gives it more obvious conceptual depth.
Noble and Websters work intrigues me in regards to waste because in a lot of ways waste is like our shadow, it is created by us and follows us. So i think its interesting to see that relationship reversed, imagery of people or a human environment created with the shadow of our waste. And if you analyse that relationship further, our lives are very much defined by waste, or at least elements of waste that may not of become waste yet. So in that sense it is interesting to see our likeness conjured up by the innovative use of waste products.
Research on Waste 